Thomas Watson
and George Fairchild

Thomas J. Watson, Sr. and George W. Fairchild.

Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. president Thomas J. Watson, Sr., (at right) poses in 1920 with CTR's board chairman George W. Fairchild. Fairchild was serving as chairman of IBM, which CTR had been renamed in February 1924, at the time of his death in December of that year. (VV2096)

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